The inspiration for this Red Swan painting is the Black Swan; the Black Swan phenomenon, the Black Swan problem, the History of the Black Swan and the Black Swan book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In summary, just the Black Swan. Actually till the moment that I held this book by Taleb in my hand I had never before heard about the Black Swan problem and phenomenon. My friend gave this book to me and said that I will love it. You see I studied philosophy and I love complicated, stubborn, controversial and unusual things. This book blew me away. This guy, Nicholas Taleb is an incredibly intelligent person-brain, intellectual dissident and a brilliant writer and in some way an academic libertarian.

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The Bay Leaf has taken the most positive, responsible and substantial place amongst all the other kinds of leaves. When still on its laurel tree (Laurus Nobilis) one calls it the "bay laurel leaf". It is always green. It is even possible for a bay leaf to mutate and regenerate and to live for more than 100 years.

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One can achieve dynamism in an abstract painting through diverse effects.  For example: the choices of the colours and how one combines them, the materials that are used, the contrast between the colours, the styles, the structure and the techniques. Of course there are thousands more possibilities and explanations depending on the philosophy of the artist or the critic. Dynamism in a painting could be cheerful but it also could be dramatic.

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I have just finished a new painting. It is a very unusual one for me. It is a kind of expressionist-abstract painting. The inspiration for this painting was surfing. My partner in crime loves surfing and he surfs too. He taught me a few years ago how to survive bodyboarding in the Atlantic ocean on the big waves (bodyboarding is a kind of surfing for 'wretches' or silly persons). Since then I am addicted to it, too. I love watching surfers floating in the waves in the ocean and I love bodyboarding by myself. It is a transcending experience when you are under water in the middle of a whirlpool and you have no idea if you will surface or not.

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